The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-08-01
REV. GEORGE WALtACE
Reviews his FIVE Years Passionate at
81 Andrews Before Leaving on
an Extended Vacation


a vacation. His text was taken from The
18th Chapter 81 jeremiah, 18th verse
Moab hath been II ease from his youth
ana he hath settled upon his lees, and hath
nor been empIied from vessel 70 vessel
neither hath he gone into captivity, there
fore his taste remained in him and his
scent Is not changed
After briefly referring 70 the text, the
I speaker said:
For five wears. dear friends, l have been
your pastor-for over three years as minis
ter in charge of the foreign congregation Of
st Andrew Cathedral; for nearly two
years as pastor Of this distinct parochial
body For several months this relation
viii be interrupted.
1 am painfully conscious that mentally
and spiritually l need the refining process,
the change, the interruption, the ventila-
ZION for the removal of crudities and evils
I in meto a better use, trust. of the priestly
/ and pastoral office During these five
years we have had in our church, il is true,
I agitation and unsettling, in many respects,
doubtless. for our good. Between you and
myself no difficulties or differences have
/ come. 1t has been my privilege, undis-
/ turbed. every Sunday Tor 2GO weeks, with
/ one exception, TO look into your faces in
/ the House OF God and to lead you in Divine
/ worship, to preach to you the Gospel of the
| Kingdom, to break to you the bread OF
/ life and offer 10 you the cup OF salvation.
/ | have buried in the cOnsecrated ground of
/ Gods acre some who were very dear TO you
/ and to me. 1 have been with some of you
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! Submitted TO my counsel and my sympa-
/ thy have been welcomedin your homes
/ with generous hospitality and myself and
! family have realized the sweet blessings
which flow from kind and loving hearts.
The age of the Millennium has not yet
! come to US, nor have we yet entered within
the gates OF Paradise There are many re-
spects in which we fall short of our Chris
tian profession, and we have much to learn
of the first principles of Christ's doctrine
and OF Christian duty.
We need constantly to resist the tone and
tendency of our Honolulu life, which seems
to take the reverence and seriousness out
of human existence, to make our men sell
fish and sensual and our women heartless
and frivolous. Most earnestly would |
implore you, as though it were my last
word to you on earth, to use all means and
agencies which God has placed in your
power to make your children reverent to
God, to His Church and His Word. God
forbid that we should have any thoughts
of this holy house as OF place where the
things of earth and the things of heaven
are profanely mingled God forbid that
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ordinances of the church or come to them
carelessly with no effort to break from
habits of sin! God forbid that any should
imagine that an Easter or Christian COM
muniOn can atone for six months neglect
OF public worship, prayer and Christian
service, or wipe out the stain of ungOdly
living And if there be any man or
woman in high place or low place, who,
stepping aside for the hour from a drunken.
licentious and prohigate career, dares to
prOfane this holy altar by coming thereto,
may God grant TO faithful stewards of the
sacred mysteries the courage to say TO
such: 'Until you have given the evidence
of repentance and amended lite you have
neither part nor lot with the people of
Cod"
years for improvement in our temporal
surroundings, for an accession to our mem
bership of those who can give of the earthly
Mammon to finish this beautiful temple of
praise. To trust to such hope is to clean
upon a broken rced-waiting for such a
future we settle upon our lees. 1t has
been my ambition and hope that we should
grow up as Christian congregation in the
development of robust type of church
manship. 1t matters not whether we be
known as Ritualistic, High, or Low, or
Broad so long as we be fruitful in good
works, so long as our worship and Chris
tian service be sincere, hearty and rever-
ent--sincere in that we live through the
week according to what on the Lords Day
we repeat from our prayer-boOks; hearty
in that no Sunday laziness, no needless
Sunday engagements keep US from the
house of God and from the fulI-voIced ex-
preston of our common prayer and praise,
making our service a reality; reverent in
the subdued demeanor. in the eye that is
blind the ear that is deaf and the tongue
that is dumb save to solemn realities in the
presence of the All-holy and in restraint
from the world : chatter as we come and
go.
1t has been my aim TO preach to you the
simple truths and claims of the everlasting
Gospel, to set forth to you the Divine
FatherhoOd, the redemptive work and the
atoning sacrifice of the Son, the glory of
His manhood as our only example, and
the power OF His help conferred by the
Spirit, through the Church, His mystical
body as our help and stay. | have done
this with many flaws and failures The
visible results are not such as show well
upon records or sound we'll abroad. There
have been some to say as | have gone on
my way, I'VE wish you good luck in the
name of the lord If in any quarter l
have been faulted or unkindly criticized, |
know not the person by whom, the time
when or the terms in which.
l have come to trust you as my friends,
and to know chat YOU can never be less.
My roots had gone out and downward
among you. and the feeling OF security and
establishment has grown upon me. But it
is questionable If such Il state of mind is
good for any sinful man, az if il were for
him to decide where he shall live or work
or die. God will not allow him whom he
is purifying and perfecting to settle upon
his lees. However long we may continue
together pastor and people, Gods dis
CipIine will he necessary for us He will